Sorry, but “majorhood” turns my stomach.
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Please! No anonymous comments! Tho I love to hear from everyone.
What I enjoy, I realize, is not so much “poetry” or “cooking” or “dance” or “parties” — but rather the combination of elements to create a fungible, gestural whole.
Everyone knows that honey makes the best extemporaneous face masque, and it’s fun to lick off the lips.
But listen! Try using the granulated honey and you’ll get exfoliation as well as the circulation-enhancing, pore-refining qualities of smooth honey.
Lacan, Trumped by a Bird
From an article in the NY Times today on the changing concepts of the “birdbrain”:
“Magpies, at an earlier age than any other creature tested develop an understanding of the fact that when an object disappears behind a curtain, it has not vanished.”
This would make magpies smarter than my cats, who seem to believe that a hand under a piece of fabric is not a hand but a toy.
The article also mentions crows in Japan that throw walnuts under the tires of cars, and then, when the coast is clear, run to eat the shelled nuts,
that pigeons can memorize up to 725 different visual patterns and show evidence of deceptive behavior (a sign of intelligence…),
that parrots “can converse with humans, invent syntax and teach other parrots what they know.”
Chirp!
Anahid Sofian, the extraordinary dancer with whom I took a workshop today, calls the hand embellishments characteristic of oriental dance “mixed signals”: palm up = come hither. palms down = go away.
The secret of its allure?
A surprisingly good little veggie side dish I whipped up:
1/2 small savoy cabbage — chopped
1 medium size onion — chopped
1 tomato sliced in wedges
5 or 6 large sliced mushrooms
1 zucchini, sliced
1 yellow crookneck squash, sliced
black mustard seeds — about a teaspoon or more to taste
National ™ Shahi daal masala mix (which contains red chili, ginger, garlic, turmeric, clove, cinnamon, cumin seed, mestard seed, nigella seed, fenugreek seed, salt, MSG — good for opening up the taste buds on the tongue and making your head feel tight — and citric acid)
Saute onion and mustard seeds in light olive oil or ghee
let the mustard seeds start to pop delightfully
throw in the cabbage
then the yellow squash
then the zucchini
then the mushrooms
and the tomatoes
Finally add oh about a teaspoon of the masala mix or more if you’re spice-happy.
Tastes good!
There must always be several modalities.
Why this constant urge to make things? I’m grateful for this particular feature of the hardwiring.
Kind machines.
Otohime 